Open askfongjojo opened 6 months ago
Ben did some related experimentation in #1890
Thanks for pointing me to the PR! (I only searched for related issues but totally forgot about open PRs before I filed this.) It covers exactly the second item in this ticket and great discussions about it. I second the idea of not making edit rules available on the instance tab (to prevent user from inadvertently changing the rules on other instances) and not trying to determine which rules apply to the instance (for the various reasons stated in the PR comments). cc @benjaminleonard
One possibility: VPC link on instance detail table says "VPC / Firewall Rules"
Here's what that looks like …
Crespo and I are both "decidedly 'meh'" on that approach
This does not need to be in Release 9, and we don't have a compelling solution to the problem, so I removed the 9
Milestone tag.
Users new to us are not necessarily aware of the need to add/modify firewall rules in order to access their applications outside of the rack. The "VPC" name on the instance page (or Create Instance page) also does not suggest anything related to security for that matter. Here are two suggestions for users to have a better chance of getting the firewall rules right: